kernel/linux.git/mm/backing-dev.c, branch v5.15.209

mm: blk-cgroup: fix use-after-free in cgwb_release_workfn()

2026-06-01T15:35:08+00:00

[ Upstream commit 8f5857be99f1ed1fa80991c72449541f634626ee ] cgwb_release_workfn() calls css_put(wb->blkcg_css) and then later accesses wb->blkcg_css again via blkcg_unpin_online(). If css_put() drops the last reference, the blkcg can be freed asynchronously (css_free_rwork_fn -> blkcg_css_free -> kfree) before blkcg_unpin_online() dereferences the pointer to access blkcg->online_pin, resulting in a use-after-free: BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in blkcg_unpin_online (./include/linux/instrumented.h:112 ./include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:400 ./include/linux/refcount.h:389 ./include/linux/refcount.h:432 ./include/linux/refcount.h:450 block/blk-cgroup.c:1367) Write of size 4 at addr ff11000117aa6160 by task kworker/71:1/531 Workqueue: cgwb_release cgwb_release_workfn Call Trace: blkcg_unpin_online (./include/linux/instrumented.h:112 ./include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:400 ./include/linux/refcount.h:389 ./include/linux/refcount.h:432 ./include/linux/refcount.h:450 block/blk-cgroup.c:1367) cgwb_release_workfn (mm/backing-dev.c:629) process_scheduled_works (kernel/workqueue.c:3278 kernel/workqueue.c:3385) Freed by task 1016: kfree (./include/linux/kasan.h:235 mm/slub.c:2689 mm/slub.c:6246 mm/slub.c:6561) css_free_rwork_fn (kernel/cgroup/cgroup.c:5542) process_scheduled_works (kernel/workqueue.c:3302 kernel/workqueue.c:3385) ** Stack based on commit 66672af7a095 ("Add linux-next specific files for 20260410") I am seeing this crash sporadically in Meta fleet across multiple kernel versions. A full reproducer is available at: https://github.com/leitao/debug/blob/main/reproducers/repro_blkcg_uaf.sh (The race window is narrow. To make it easily reproducible, inject a msleep(100) between css_put() and blkcg_unpin_online() in cgwb_release_workfn(). With that delay and a KASAN-enabled kernel, the reproducer triggers the splat reliably in less than a second.) Fix this by moving blkcg_unpin_online() before css_put(), so the cgwb's CSS reference keeps the blkcg alive while blkcg_unpin_online() accesses it. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20260413-blkcg-v1-1-35b72622d16c@debian.org Fixes: 59b57717fff8 ("blkcg: delay blkg destruction until after writeback has finished") Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao Reviewed-by: Dennis Zhou Reviewed-by: Shakeel Butt Cc: David Hildenbrand Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Johannes Weiner Cc: Josef Bacik Cc: JP Kobryn Cc: Liam Howlett Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes (Oracle) Cc: Martin KaFai Lau Cc: Michal Hocko Cc: Mike Rapoport Cc: Suren Baghdasaryan Cc: Tejun Heo Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

writeback, cgroup: fix null-ptr-deref write in bdi_split_work_to_wbs

2023-05-11T14:00:18+00:00

[ Upstream commit 1ba1199ec5747f475538c0d25a32804e5ba1dfde ] KASAN report null-ptr-deref: ================================================================== BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in bdi_split_work_to_wbs+0x5c5/0x7b0 Write of size 8 at addr 0000000000000000 by task sync/943 CPU: 5 PID: 943 Comm: sync Tainted: 6.3.0-rc5-next-20230406-dirty #461 Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x7f/0xc0 print_report+0x2ba/0x340 kasan_report+0xc4/0x120 kasan_check_range+0x1b7/0x2e0 __kasan_check_write+0x24/0x40 bdi_split_work_to_wbs+0x5c5/0x7b0 sync_inodes_sb+0x195/0x630 sync_inodes_one_sb+0x3a/0x50 iterate_supers+0x106/0x1b0 ksys_sync+0x98/0x160 [...] ================================================================== The race that causes the above issue is as follows: cpu1 cpu2 -------------------------|------------------------- inode_switch_wbs INIT_WORK(&isw->work, inode_switch_wbs_work_fn) queue_rcu_work(isw_wq, &isw->work) // queue_work async inode_switch_wbs_work_fn wb_put_many(old_wb, nr_switched) percpu_ref_put_many ref->data->release(ref) cgwb_release queue_work(cgwb_release_wq, &wb->release_work) // queue_work async &wb->release_work cgwb_release_workfn ksys_sync iterate_supers sync_inodes_one_sb sync_inodes_sb bdi_split_work_to_wbs kmalloc(sizeof(*work), GFP_ATOMIC) // alloc memory failed percpu_ref_exit ref->data = NULL kfree(data) wb_get(wb) percpu_ref_get(&wb->refcnt) percpu_ref_get_many(ref, 1) atomic_long_add(nr, &ref->data->count) atomic64_add(i, v) // trigger null-ptr-deref bdi_split_work_to_wbs() traverses &bdi->wb_list to split work into all wbs. If the allocation of new work fails, the on-stack fallback will be used and the reference count of the current wb is increased afterwards. If cgroup writeback membership switches occur before getting the reference count and the current wb is released as old_wd, then calling wb_get() or wb_put() will trigger the null pointer dereference above. This issue was introduced in v4.3-rc7 (see fix tag1). Both sync_inodes_sb() and __writeback_inodes_sb_nr() calls to bdi_split_work_to_wbs() can trigger this issue. For scenarios called via sync_inodes_sb(), originally commit 7fc5854f8c6e ("writeback: synchronize sync(2) against cgroup writeback membership switches") reduced the possibility of the issue by adding wb_switch_rwsem, but in v5.14-rc1 (see fix tag2) removed the "inode_io_list_del_locked(inode, old_wb)" from inode_switch_wbs_work_fn() so that wb->state contains WB_has_dirty_io, thus old_wb is not skipped when traversing wbs in bdi_split_work_to_wbs(), and the issue becomes easily reproducible again. To solve this problem, percpu_ref_exit() is called under RCU protection to avoid race between cgwb_release_workfn() and bdi_split_work_to_wbs(). Moreover, replace wb_get() with wb_tryget() in bdi_split_work_to_wbs(), and skip the current wb if wb_tryget() fails because the wb has already been shutdown. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230410130826.1492525-1-libaokun1@huawei.com Fixes: b817525a4a80 ("writeback: bdi_writeback iteration must not skip dying ones") Signed-off-by: Baokun Li Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Acked-by: Tejun Heo Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Andreas Dilger Cc: Christian Brauner Cc: Dennis Zhou Cc: Hou Tao Cc: yangerkun Cc: Zhang Yi Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

writeback: avoid use-after-free after removing device

2022-08-31T15:16:47+00:00

commit f87904c075515f3e1d8f4a7115869d3b914674fd upstream. When a disk is removed, bdi_unregister gets called to stop further writeback and wait for associated delayed work to complete. However, wb_inode_writeback_end() may schedule bandwidth estimation dwork after this has completed, which can result in the timer attempting to access the just freed bdi_writeback. Fix this by checking if the bdi_writeback is alive, similar to when scheduling writeback work. Since this requires wb->work_lock, and wb_inode_writeback_end() may get called from interrupt, switch wb->work_lock to an irqsafe lock. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220801155034.3772543-1-khazhy@google.com Fixes: 45a2966fd641 ("writeback: fix bandwidth estimate for spiky workload") Signed-off-by: Khazhismel Kumykov Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Cc: Michael Stapelberg Cc: Wu Fengguang Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

init: Initialize noop_backing_dev_info early

2022-06-22T12:22:02+00:00

[ Upstream commit 4bca7e80b6455772b4bf3f536dcbc19aac424d6a ] noop_backing_dev_info is used by superblocks of various pseudofilesystems such as kdevtmpfs. After commit 10e14073107d ("writeback: Fix inode->i_io_list not be protected by inode->i_lock error") this broke because __mark_inode_dirty() started to access more fields from noop_backing_dev_info and this led to crashes inside locked_inode_to_wb_and_lock_list() called from __mark_inode_dirty(). Fix the problem by initializing noop_backing_dev_info before the filesystems get mounted. Fixes: 10e14073107d ("writeback: Fix inode->i_io_list not be protected by inode->i_lock error") Reported-and-tested-by: Suzuki K Poulose Reported-and-tested-by: Alexandru Elisei Reported-and-tested-by: Guenter Roeck Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

mm: bdi: initialize bdi_min_ratio when bdi is unregistered

2021-12-14T09:57:11+00:00

commit 3c376dfafbf7a8ea0dea212d095ddd83e93280bb upstream. Initialize min_ratio if it is set during bdi unregistration. This can prevent problems that may occur a when bdi is removed without resetting min_ratio. For example. 1) insert external sdcard 2) set external sdcard's min_ratio 70 3) remove external sdcard without setting min_ratio 0 4) insert external sdcard 5) set external sdcard's min_ratio 70 << error occur(can't set) Because when an sdcard is removed, the present bdi_min_ratio value will remain. Currently, the only way to reset bdi_min_ratio is to reboot. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak comment and coding style] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20211021161942.5983-1-mj0123.lee@samsung.com Signed-off-by: Manjong Lee Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Changheun Lee Cc: Jens Axboe Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Cc: Cc: Cc: Cc: Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)

2021-09-03T17:08:28+00:00

Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton: "173 patches. Subsystems affected by this series: ia64, ocfs2, block, and mm (debug, pagecache, gup, swap, shmem, memcg, selftests, pagemap, mremap, bootmem, sparsemem, vmalloc, kasan, pagealloc, memory-failure, hugetlb, userfaultfd, vmscan, compaction, mempolicy, memblock, oom-kill, migration, ksm, percpu, vmstat, and madvise)" * emailed patches from Andrew Morton : (173 commits) mm/madvise: add MADV_WILLNEED to process_madvise() mm/vmstat: remove unneeded return value mm/vmstat: simplify the array size calculation mm/vmstat: correct some wrong comments mm/percpu,c: remove obsolete comments of pcpu_chunk_populated() selftests: vm: add COW time test for KSM pages selftests: vm: add KSM merging time test mm: KSM: fix data type selftests: vm: add KSM merging across nodes test selftests: vm: add KSM zero page merging test selftests: vm: add KSM unmerge test selftests: vm: add KSM merge test mm/migrate: correct kernel-doc notation mm: wire up syscall process_mrelease mm: introduce process_mrelease system call memblock: make memblock_find_in_range method private mm/mempolicy.c: use in_task() in mempolicy_slab_node() mm/mempolicy: unify the create() func for bind/interleave/prefer-many policies mm/mempolicy: advertise new MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY mm/hugetlb: add support for mempolicy MPOL_PREFERRED_MANY ...

writeback: fix bandwidth estimate for spiky workload

2021-09-03T16:58:10+00:00

Michael Stapelberg has reported that for workload with short big spikes of writes (GCC linker seem to trigger this frequently) the write throughput is heavily underestimated and tends to steadily sink until it reaches zero. This has rather bad impact on writeback throttling (causing stalls). The problem is that writeback throughput estimate gets updated at most once per 200 ms. One update happens early after we submit pages for writeback (at that point writeout of only small fraction of pages is completed and thus observed throughput is tiny). Next update happens only during the next write spike (updates happen only from inode writeback and dirty throttling code) and if that is more than 1s after previous spike, we decide system was idle and just ignore whatever was written until this moment. Fix the problem by making sure writeback throughput estimate is also updated shortly after writeback completes to get reasonable estimate of throughput for spiky workloads. [jack@suse.cz: avoid division by 0 in wb_update_dirty_ratelimit()] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210617095309.3542373-1-stapelberg+linux@google.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210713104716.22868-3-jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Reported-by: Michael Stapelberg Tested-by: Michael Stapelberg Cc: Wu Fengguang Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

writeback: track number of inodes under writeback

2021-09-03T16:58:10+00:00

Patch series "writeback: Fix bandwidth estimates", v4. Fix estimate of writeback throughput when device is not fully busy doing writeback. Michael Stapelberg has reported that such workload (e.g. generated by linking) tends to push estimated throughput down to 0 and as a result writeback on the device is practically stalled. The first three patches fix the reported issue, the remaining two patches are unrelated cleanups of problems I've noticed when reading the code. This patch (of 4): Track number of inodes under writeback for each bdi_writeback structure. We will use this to decide whether wb does any IO and so we can estimate its writeback throughput. In principle we could use number of pages under writeback (WB_WRITEBACK counter) for this however normal percpu counter reads are too inaccurate for our purposes and summing the counter is too expensive. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210713104519.16394-1-jack@suse.cz Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210713104716.22868-1-jack@suse.cz Signed-off-by: Jan Kara Cc: Wu Fengguang Cc: Michael Stapelberg Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

mm: hide laptop_mode_wb_timer entirely behind the BDI API

2021-08-09T17:52:28+00:00

Don't leak the detaіls of the timer into the block layer, instead initialize the timer in bdi_alloc and delete it in bdi_unregister. Note that this means the timer is initialized (but not armed) for non-block queues as well now. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Reviewed-by: Jan Kara Reviewed-by: Johannes Thumshirn Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210809141744.1203023-2-hch@lst.de Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

writeback, cgroup: remove wb from offline list before releasing refcnt

2021-07-24T00:43:28+00:00

Boyang reported that the commit c22d70a162d3 ("writeback, cgroup: release dying cgwbs by switching attached inodes") causes the kernel to crash while running xfstests generic/256 on ext4 on aarch64 and ppc64le. run fstests generic/256 at 2021-07-12 05:41:40 EXT4-fs (vda3): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: . Quota mode: none. Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000000000000 Mem abort info: ESR = 0x96000005 EC = 0x25: DABT (current EL), IL = 32 bits SET = 0, FnV = 0 EA = 0, S1PTW = 0 FSC = 0x05: level 1 translation fault Data abort info: ISV = 0, ISS = 0x00000005 CM = 0, WnR = 0 user pgtable: 64k pages, 48-bit VAs, pgdp=00000000b0502000 [0000000000000000] pgd=0000000000000000, p4d=0000000000000000, pud=0000000000000000 Internal error: Oops: 96000005 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: dm_flakey dm_snapshot dm_bufio dm_zero dm_mod loop tls rpcsec_gss_krb5 auth_rpcgss nfsv4 dns_resolver nfs lockd grace fscache netfs rfkill sunrpc ext4 vfat fat mbcache jbd2 drm fuse xfs libcrc32c crct10dif_ce ghash_ce sha2_ce sha256_arm64 sha1_ce virtio_blk virtio_net net_failover virtio_console failover virtio_mmio aes_neon_bs [last unloaded: scsi_debug] CPU: 0 PID: 408468 Comm: kworker/u8:5 Tainted: G X --------- --- 5.14.0-0.rc1.15.bx.el9.aarch64 #1 Hardware name: QEMU KVM Virtual Machine, BIOS 0.0.0 02/06/2015 Workqueue: events_unbound cleanup_offline_cgwbs_workfn pstate: 004000c5 (nzcv daIF +PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--) pc : cleanup_offline_cgwbs_workfn+0x320/0x394 lr : cleanup_offline_cgwbs_workfn+0xe0/0x394 sp : ffff80001554fd10 x29: ffff80001554fd10 x28: 0000000000000000 x27: 0000000000000001 x26: 0000000000000000 x25: 00000000000000e0 x24: ffffd2a2fbe671a8 x23: ffff80001554fd88 x22: ffffd2a2fbe67198 x21: ffffd2a2fc25a730 x20: ffff210412bc3000 x19: ffff210412bc3280 x18: 0000000000000000 x17: 0000000000000000 x16: 0000000000000000 x15: 0000000000000000 x14: 0000000000000000 x13: 0000000000000030 x12: 0000000000000040 x11: ffff210481572238 x10: ffff21048157223a x9 : ffffd2a2fa276c60 x8 : ffff210484106b60 x7 : 0000000000000000 x6 : 000000000007d18a x5 : ffff210416a86400 x4 : ffff210412bc0280 x3 : 0000000000000000 x2 : ffff80001554fd88 x1 : ffff210412bc0280 x0 : 0000000000000003 Call trace: cleanup_offline_cgwbs_workfn+0x320/0x394 process_one_work+0x1f4/0x4b0 worker_thread+0x184/0x540 kthread+0x114/0x120 ret_from_fork+0x10/0x18 Code: d63f0020 97f99963 17ffffa6 f8588263 (f9400061) ---[ end trace e250fe289272792a ]--- Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops: Fatal exception SMP: stopping secondary CPUs SMP: failed to stop secondary CPUs 0-2 Kernel Offset: 0x52a2e9fa0000 from 0xffff800010000000 PHYS_OFFSET: 0xfff0defca0000000 CPU features: 0x00200251,23200840 Memory Limit: none ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Oops: Fatal exception ]--- The problem happens when cgwb_release_workfn() races with cleanup_offline_cgwbs_workfn(): wb_tryget() in cleanup_offline_cgwbs_workfn() can be called after percpu_ref_exit() is cgwb_release_workfn(), which is basically a use-after-free error. Fix the problem by making removing the writeback structure from the offline list before releasing the percpu reference counter. It will guarantee that cleanup_offline_cgwbs_workfn() will not see and not access writeback structures which are about to be released. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210716201039.3762203-1-guro@fb.com Fixes: c22d70a162d3 ("writeback, cgroup: release dying cgwbs by switching attached inodes") Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin Reported-by: Boyang Xue Suggested-by: Jan Kara Tested-by: Darrick J. Wong Cc: Will Deacon Cc: Dave Chinner Cc: Murphy Zhou Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds